Re: MCI and SprintLink are partitioned (fwd)
Hi, Currently MCI peers with Sprintlink at four places: Mae-East, Mae-West, New York NAP, and Chicago NAP, and these peers do backup each other. I just checked the peer status a few minutes ago. Here is what I found: interconnect up time Mae-East 6:06:45 (sheduled maintainence this morning) Mae-West 3d04 NY NAP 4d20 Chicago NAP 1w6d Clearly this data does not support the remark that a partition (total loss of peers) happened between MCI and Sprint yesterday evening. -- Enke
Anyone willing to say what happened?
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From spot.Colorado.EDU!westnet-site-people-request Tue Oct 3 20:48:25 1995 From: Chris Garner <cgarner@westnet.net> Message-Id: <199510040136.TAA06094@dozer.colorado.edu> Subject: MCI and SprintLink are partitioned To: westnet-site-people@westnet.net Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:36:50 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 289
MCI and SprintLink are disconnected at the moment. MCI is having a BGP problem with SprintLink. Currently the two networks are partitioned. The problem started just after 7pm (Mountain time) and is still occuring.
-Chris (cgarner@westnet.net)
Enke, I'd like to point out that the message below was sent to Westnet sites (Gordon Cook forwarded it to NANOG without taking the context into consideration). From our perspective SprintLink and MCI were in fact partitioned. My customers probably don't care that other SprintLink sites could get to MCI customers (except in the "gee this Internet thing is good for the world" sort of way). Last night about 7pm Mountain time we lost connectivitiy from one of our monitoring stations to all our "SprintLink only" sites. This monitoring station uses MCI as it's NSP. After doing some traces it was pretty clear that MCI was blackholing traffic that came from the Denver MCI POP headed to SprintLink sites. It was bouncing around between MCI's SF nodes. The MCI NOC was in fact aware of the problem and told me it was at escalation level 4. I was told this morning by the MCI NOC that MCI had an "SSE hang on a border router" and that a reset had fixed the problem. MCI ticket #2778. We regained connectivity at about 7:30pm, so it lasted just under half an hour for us. I doubt the nanog list is the place for this though. -- -Chris (cgarner@westnet.net)
Hi, Currently MCI peers with Sprintlink at four places: Mae-East, Mae-West, New York NAP, and Chicago NAP, and these peers do backup each other. I just checked the peer status a few minutes ago. Here is what I found:
interconnect up time Mae-East 6:06:45 (sheduled maintainence this morning) Mae-West 3d04 NY NAP 4d20 Chicago NAP 1w6d
Clearly this data does not support the remark that a partition (total loss of peers) happened between MCI and Sprint yesterday evening.
-- Enke
Anyone willing to say what happened?
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From spot.Colorado.EDU!westnet-site-people-request Tue Oct 3 20:48:25 1995 From: Chris Garner <cgarner@westnet.net> Message-Id: <199510040136.TAA06094@dozer.colorado.edu> Subject: MCI and SprintLink are partitioned To: westnet-site-people@westnet.net Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:36:50 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 289
MCI and SprintLink are disconnected at the moment. MCI is having a BGP problem with SprintLink. Currently the two networks are partitioned. The problem started just after 7pm (Mountain time) and is still occuring.
-Chris (cgarner@westnet.net)
Chris, Thanks for the clarification. I also did more checking. Westcoast sites that use the Mae-West to reach other ISPs were indeed affected by this outage. The SSE problem has been reported to our vendor and it is being actively pursued. -- Enke
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 12:18:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Chris Garner <cgarner@westnet.net> To: enke@mci.net (Enke Chen) CC: cook@cookreport.com, nanog@merit.edu, rw@mci.net
Enke,
I'd like to point out that the message below was sent to Westnet sites (Gordon Cook forwarded it to NANOG without taking the context into consideration). From our perspective SprintLink and MCI were in fact partitioned. My customers probably don't care that other SprintLink sites could get to MCI customers (except in the "gee this Internet thing is good for the world" sort of way).
Last night about 7pm Mountain time we lost connectivitiy from one of our monitoring stations to all our "SprintLink only" sites. This monitoring station uses MCI as it's NSP. After doing some traces it was pretty clear that MCI was blackholing traffic that came from the Denver MCI POP headed to SprintLink sites. It was bouncing around between MCI's SF nodes. The MCI NOC was in fact aware of the problem and told me it was at escalation level 4. I was told this morning by the MCI NOC that MCI had an "SSE hang on a border router" and that a reset had fixed the problem. MCI ticket #2778.
We regained connectivity at about 7:30pm, so it lasted just under half an hour for us.
I doubt the nanog list is the place for this though. --
-Chris (cgarner@westnet.net)
Hi, Currently MCI peers with Sprintlink at four places: Mae-East, Mae-West, New York NAP, and Chicago NAP, and these peers do backup each other. I just checked the peer status a few minutes ago. Here is what I found:
interconnect up time Mae-East 6:06:45 (sheduled maintainence this morning) Mae-West 3d04 NY NAP 4d20 Chicago NAP 1w6d
Clearly this data does not support the remark that a partition (total loss of peers) happened between MCI and Sprint yesterday evening.
-- Enke
Anyone willing to say what happened?
******************************************************************** Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscript.: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Non Profit. $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate. Site Lic $650 http://www.netaxs.com/~cook <- Subscription Info & COOK Report Index ********************************************************************
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From spot.Colorado.EDU!westnet-site-people-request Tue Oct 3 20:48:25 1995 From: Chris Garner <cgarner@westnet.net> Message-Id: <199510040136.TAA06094@dozer.colorado.edu> Subject: MCI and SprintLink are partitioned To: westnet-site-people@westnet.net Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:36:50 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 289
MCI and SprintLink are disconnected at the moment. MCI is having a BGP problem with SprintLink. Currently the two networks are partitioned. The problem started just after 7pm (Mountain time) and is still occuring.
-Chris (cgarner@westnet.net)
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